Deaths weigh heavily in Dorchester Jatara Gray, a senior at Dorchester's Noonan Business Academy, recently rattled off a list of things she does when she is not in class. She watches MTV and "I Love New York" on cable. She listens to hip hop on her iPod. She is a cheerleader for her high school football team and works at a coffee shop in Cambridge.
Then, with the same nonchalance, Gray, 17, recited another list: of friends killed on the streets of Boston.
Eon Hoskins, 14, who went to middle school with Gray, was stabbed in June 2003 in Grove Hall. Dakeem Galloway, 14, was shot in Dorchester a year later. William Saladin, 20, was shot in the Franklin Hill housing development in September 2004, apparently caught in a crossfire between warring gangs. "He didn't duck close enough to the ground," Gray explained. Another friend - Charles Bunch Jr., 18 - was found in a Mattapan street with multiple gunshot wounds one night last month.
"So many people we knew are passing that we're not shocked," Gray said last week, sipping fruit punch at a sandwich shop near the school. "We're all used to it now." Read the whole sad story here...
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